Peter James Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Leveraging nearly 20 years of experience developing automated vehicles to help companies deliver incredible systems and build world-class teams. Some of my services:* System-level design - Architecting safe systems to ensure modular and scalable products.* Development plans - Crafting roadmaps that fit the team while minimizing time to market.* Safety.

San Francisco, California, US

* Restructured the vehicle system architecture for a driverless off-road autonomy application.* Tripled the System Safety team size in my first 6 months.

Golden, Colorado, US

* Produced a world-class IP portfolio of dozens of US and international patent filings and hundreds of claims, protecting Outrider's position as the leader in yard truck automation.* Conceived the strategic initiatives to rapidly expand Outrider's business.

Golden, Colorado, US

* Introduced the Product Management function at Outrider and hired a lean PM team of 4 people.* Planned the multi-year roadmap to build a new industry and scale to a multi-billion dollar company.* Liaised with Fortune 50 customers, promoting the Outrider System and refining future plans* Helped raise $190M over multiple funding rounds.

Golden, Colorado, US

* Scaled the hardware organization (electrical and mechanical functions) from 1 engineer to over 20.* Architected a safe, scalable autonomous yard truck hardware system with an aggressive target cost.* Delivered Outrider's first 10 autonomous yard trucks for internal testing and customer pilots.

Golden, Colorado, US

* Established the Systems Engineering team at Outrider and set up key development processes.* Launched Outrider's field engineering team with 4 new hires, ensuring performance at customer sites.* Developed the safety system for Outrider's first driverless operations on a customer site.

Golden, Colorado, US

* Created the first Outrider AV hardware prototype with a team of 3, resulting in Outrider's first fully autonomous yard truck.

Louisville, Colorado, US

* Designed the functional and physical architectures for the eXpeditionary Robotic-Platform (XR-P) with a special focus on the electronic systems.* Managed budget and schedule and aligned technical direction across multiple robotics projects.* Led bid and proposal efforts for advanced unmanned systems for DoD customers.

Bethesda, MD, US

* Managed $5M+ budget, schedule and technical execution of the Autonomous Mobility Applique System (AMAS), including systems engineering, safety, hardware, and software.* Trained 4 new technical leads and a new Project Manager over a 1-month period to enable product line expansion.* Communicated with customers for all technical interactions and.

Bethesda, MD, US

* Budget and schedule responsibility for the technical execution encompassing hardware, software, and integration activities.* Delivered a system at the end of the AMAS JCTD phase (Aug 2014) that upgrades existing tactical wheeled vehicles by adding actuation, sensing, and processing to provide drive-by-wire capabilities, driver warning and assist.

Bethesda, MD, US

* Software developer for the Convoy Active Safety Technologies (CAST) program, responsible for infrastructure components including sensor data acquisition and distribution, robust communications amongst convoy vehicles, and reliable tele-operation using streaming video and remote control. * Performed system integration and field testing for CAST vehicles.

US

* Developed software for UAV guidance, navigation, and control; LADAR-based obstacle detection; and inter-process communications for the Autonomous Collaborative Operations (ACO) project.* Executed field tests for collaborative UAVs.